Bewketu seyoum biography of martin

  • Bewketu Seyoum was born in Gojjam, Ethiopia.
  • Bewketu Seyoum is a popular young Ethiopian poet and writer from Mankusa in Gojjam, north-west of Addis Ababa.
  • Ethiopian poet and novelist Bewketu Seyoum reading from his work, In Search of Fat, during the Poetry Parnassus festival held at London's South Bank Centre as.

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      The Anglo-Ethiopian Society

      Ethiopian literature, the new frontier?

      Author - Chris Beckett


      As an English poet writing about my boyhood in Addis Ababa, inom soon realized that Shakespearean sonnets were not appropriate! I needed to find out about Ethiopian poetry and literature, so that I could adapt some of their forms, omslag my English words in an Ethiopian gabi, if you like. Only then could inom get close to the feeling of being an English boy in Addis. So inom started Amharic evening classes at SOAS in London and, while waiting for my Amharic to magically improve, inom haunted the library looking for English translations of Ethiopian poetry and novels.

      What I funnen was that not much Ethiopian literature is available in English! There are a few novels/short stories written in English, like Daniachew Worku's The Thirteenth Sun (1973) and Hama Tuma's The Case of the Socialist Witchdoctor and other stories (1993); also Nega Mezlekia's memoir, Notes from the Hyena's Belly (2000)

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      In Search of Fat

      'In Search of Fat' is a translation of some of Bewketu Seyoums's popular poems from Amharic. The poems in this bilingual edition mark his distinctive humorous but cutting style in predominantly short form. The translations, with input from the author, aim to replicate in English the energy and vitality of his voice. Bewketu Seyoum is a popular young Ethiopian poet and writer from Mankusa in Gojjam, north-west of Addis Ababa. His father is an English teacher and his mother comes from a family of Orthodox priests. He has published three collections of Amharic poetry, two novels and two CD's of humorous stories. His short punchy poems, full of warmth and humour, address all the important issues of modern life, including poverty, freedom, religion and love. In 2008, Bewketu was awarded the prize for Young Writer of the Year by the President of Ethiopia. In June 2012, he will represent Ethiopia at the Poetry Parnassus festival in London.

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